[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Oct 8 15:52:57 CEST 2009

Simon Cross wrote:

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

= Virtualenv and the multiple version support in Distribute = ... My opinion is that this tool exists only because Python doesn't support the installation of multiple versions for the same distributions.

This is not at all how I use virtualenv. For me virtualenv is a sandbox so that I don't have to become root whenever I need to install a Python package for testing purposes and to allow me to hop between sets of installed Python packages while developing on multiple Python projects. I also use it as a sandbox for build bots so that multiple bots on the same machine can each build their own projects with just the known dependencies installed.

This is exactly why I use virtualenv as well. I don't recall ever having wanted / needed to install multiple versions of the same library - whilst I can appreciate that it can be a real issue it has never been a problem for me.

Michael

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